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January, 2008
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Your Creative Garden: Time
Sent Monday, January 28, 2008
Creative Zen Transitions
creativity ~ transformation ~ peace
Your Creative Garden: Time
When creating a garden, you need time for planning, site selection, amending the soil, setting up irrigation, planting, weeding, and all sorts of other tasks! Sometimes you need to set aside a chunk of time, but for many tasks it can be a few minutes here and there.
Creating is the same way. There are occasions when we need to set aside a large chunk of time -- forming your […]
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Your Creative Garden: Space
Sent Thursday, January 17, 2008
Creative Zen Transitions
creativity ~ transformation ~ peace
Your Creative Garden: Space
When creating a garden, it is important to realize that many factors influence your success, and that they're not all within your control! The key is to set things up to maximize results, while minimizing effort and problems.
One of the first things to do when creating a garden is to select the space you're going to use. There are many factors to consider when choosing a […]
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Growing Your Creative Garden
Sent Monday, January 7, 2008
Creative Zen Transitions
creativity ~ transformation ~ peace
Growing Your Creative Garden
The new year has me thinking of how much working on our creative projects is like growing a garden.
A garden isn't a one-shot thing, and neither is a creative project. In order to harvest, you have to work consistently in the garden, or on your creative project. Sometimes this is exciting; sometimes it is incredibly boring. Sometimes the weather changes unexpectedly. There […]
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January 1
Sent Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace
January 1 ... Magical day of new beginnings!
Every year we feel the allure of the fresh start that this day brings.
Whether we succeed or fail in our creative projects may not depend on how strict we can be with ourselves and our New Year's resolutions, but how forgiving. The truth is that the best of us will likely not fulfill a vow to create daily. Why? Because life is delightfully unpredictable and […]